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- -. THE D fllb Y TIDINGS EDITORIAL and FEATURE PAGE - -
’ ESTABLISHED IN 1876
.S B L A N D
D A IL Y
Bw. H ÈERKINS, News Editor
C. J. READ, Managing Editor
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T ID IN G S O U T
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By Williams
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wart T -fb s h a k e . sour h a m o
S lR ’. SOU »ARB AS- FINE A'lWPC
OF MANHQOO a s x v e t u t R LAID
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COURAGE CAM SCALE "faE HEIGHTS
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THOUGHT W A S PRoTECTiMfir
MS’ D A U G H TE R !
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Prom the press notices of Rupert Hughes’ new
biography of Washington it seems safely predictable'
- that the author is going to catch a lot more hell
from those who are convinced that he is engaged in
’ a dastardly attempt to run down the father of his
country.
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This Mr. Hughes will hotly deny, already has
denied in*fact. He explained after the*rumpus caus­
ed by his talk at a meeting of the Sons of the Ameri­
can Revolution that he greatly admires him more
' for finding that he was of the earthy instead of the
plaster saint of the «school text book. ’ b
What’s in the book can of -course be Ifcnown otaly
by reading it. News dispatches give only the slcetcU-
iest kind of indication of its tenor. They suggest,
however, that Mr. Hughes has dealt chiefly with the
young man Washington rather than with the soldier'
and statesman o f later years. They suggest also
that the young man of Mr. Hughes’ biography was
not altogether unlike many other normal young men
who never got their portraits on dollar bills or post­
age stamps, a youth who fell head over heels in love
with a young woman already married .and mooned
about it a great deal, a youth who finally prudently
picked a wife with a large fortune, a youth with the
flirtatious instinrits of youth, and a youth who was
as capable of making mistakes as any other.
Mr. Hughes is hot a young whipper snapper as
one critic has referred to him. He is a man of ma­
ture years Well into what is ordinarly considered
middle age, a skilled investigator, an apt and charm­
ing writer and a man of Wide experience of the
, world., To -charge him with maliciously wanting
to defame the character of Washington seems silly.
There is a school of historical and biographical writ­
ing which holds it justifiable on morhj grounds to
suppress certain incidents in the lives of great men,
but .none so far as we are aware which advocates .
deliberately libeling such characters. There' is no
sound reason for believing that those who rerid the
veil of sanctity which covers ofllr heroes are actuated
-by motives other than a desirp’to get at th£Jgfiked
truth.
It is possible that in this resentment at what he
conceives to be the misinterpretation of Washington*
by oonvehtiorial historians Mr.- Hughes has leaned
rather strongly .in the other direction. That is for
scholars of history to say, and to say not on a report
of the book, but after a careful reading of it. When
they have <«aid. it they have merely set up one ex-’
perf’s opinion against another’s.
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Local Issues in National Affairs
It is a queer commentary upon our national
political system that in the campaign that ended
with last Tuesday ’s elections, nearly eveiy successful
candidate for the upper and lower houses of congress
won not because they stood upon platforms contain­
ing planks of national importance, but rather because
of issues that were purely local in their import.
There are quite a-few very vital questions that
congress must decide during the life of the next con­
gress, and yet these question; were hardly mention­
ed during the recent campaign.
About the only 'question of national import that
was made a part of the campaign was the matter of
prohibition, and both Republicans and Democrats
endeavored to sidestep it as much as possible. It
was only in those places where “ wet” sentiment is „
overwhelming, like New York and Chicago, for in-
’ atance, that candidates did not try to straddle the
question if the matter of prohibition can be called
a political question at all, for prohibition is now a
part of the Constitution and in spite of a lively
ballyhoo on the part of the “ wets” congress has no
power whatever to change the Constitution, and
mighty little desire to attempt to nullify the eight­
eenth amendment to that document by repealing or
modifying the Volstead act.
It most be admitted that a vast majority of the
*a®natorial contests were based upon issues that were^
not even, of statewide interest, but more nearly
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countrywide. It is indeed a queer commentary upon
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£ our party system of selecting our law makers, and
. brings about a situation which may sooner or later
result in difficulties. It must be admitted that the
mental, caliber of onr senate and house of represen­
tatives is not of the highest True, there are still
more thud able men in both houses. But, taken
• whole, we are sorrow to say,* the average is
but high. And this trend toward electing
and representatives upon issues that have
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whatever outside of the localities in
Which the candidates reside, issues which, in the
main, are even petty in those localities, is not con-
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to the best
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State street, Chicago, hag been made a “ white
may»” So many wrong persons were shot in the
l e e e -e o o o i
-w -
(B en d Press)
T h e c u rre n t papers carry a -
story about a lady who has
smoked the same pipe fo r 65
years and state th a t ahq ex­
presses the hope th a t she may
smoke it another 65 years.
T he public is Speculating on
w hether the pipe w ilt
last
through.— Bend Press.
About th e cheapest .form
o f k ic k is listening to w orld
series returns over the radio.
Some o ( thp listeners declare
It was also very satisfying.
— Hood R iv e r News.
P O R T L A N D , Nov. 4. —
Mrs. M ary Shaw d id n ’t in ­
tend to break the la w but
l'hadvertentiy broke It 1U
m ixing the laws of hospital­
ity and those o f prohibition,
re told Federal Judge Bean.
' 'P ro h ib itio n officers visited
h e r home and she served
strdng drin k.
T he m ixing of the two
form s q I ' la w
cost Mrs.
Shaw |5 0 0 .
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harden,
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10 Years Ago
M rs.
B.
F.
Rosencrani
and
Thursday a /te r spending the week
at th e hom e,of her fa th e r W illia m
F lip p e r, h t Gold H U I.
Mrs. Cífrense Lane
Geòrgie Coffee’s place
Is taking
as book­
keeper for the Ashland Transfer
A Storage company during the
latter’s absence on ga extended
trip east.
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None of the .Ashland stores
carried white duck trouser« big
enoagh to fit Frank Jordan, who
playa the bass horn In the band,
and the band boy« say: «’We will
bars to give another dance to bay
material far a pair for Frank."
LYDIA
of the Pines
the
When Rainy Days Came.
H«
Wülste
<W by Frederlsk A stokes Oo.)
WNU Servios
rutTihn conarnons.
n ia t nignr ne
resumed a lulld flirtation with
Olga that he bad dropped when
school closed and Olga met him
more than h a lf way.
“Wouldn’t t h a t , come and get
you 1" growled K ent to Lydia a « .
-Charlie and Olga paddleu away In.
the canoe, the next morping. “Say,
Ly<f, let’s k ill time with a tramp
up to the settlement for some gum.
“All right, I e in stand It I f y o n *
can. W ill you come along, Miss
Towne V
M I m Towne, who had been high­
ly edified by the morning's maneu­
vering. shook her hdad and settled
herself In her , hammock.
"No,
eight-mile w alk fo r me. I'm taking
a rest cure."
CHAPTKR X
THE STORY
CHAPTER L— W ith her baby «la­
ter, Patience, Lyfila returns from
play to the untidy hom e o f her Im­
poverished father, Arnoa Dudley, at
L ake City. Her fath er’s friend, and
her own devoted admirer, John L e­
vine. a fter d leou seln c affairs w ith
Dudley, make« up h is m ind to co
lato pollttoe.
CHAPTER II. — Lydia, P atien ce
and a Companion, K en t Moulton,
p layin g by the lak e, are accosted
by an old squaw from the n
reservation. Lydia g iv es her
M argery, sm all dau gh ter of Davo
Marshall, the tow n ’s banker, loins
them. In their play M argery fa lls
Into the w ater. She 1« pulled out,
unhurt but frightened, and taken
home by L ydia and K ent. Her fa ­
ther ca lls on Amos to complain,
blam ing L ydia for the mishap.
CHAPTER IIT.—L ydia explain*
the accident and a sserts th at be­
cause M argery la considered “stuck
UP” she le not a popular playm ate.
M arshall arran ges for L yd is to
teach M argery to awtm and oth er­
w ise become “one a t the crowd."
L evine te lls Amos h is plan to take
tim ber from the Indian reservation
and u ltim ately have It opened for
settlem en t.
CHAPTER IV. — P atien ce su c­
cu m b . to aa attack o f diphtheria,
lea v in g L ydia fe elin g th at her trust
In Qo<! Is lo st and her sm all world
,h a s collapsed. She finds com fort In
the lo v in g kindness of John L e­
vine. L yala learns th at a note of
Am os’, baoked by L evine and hold
by Marshall, Is doe and cannot be
met. The child pleads w ith Mar­
shall, and for her sa k e he a grees to
renew the note.
CHAPTER V —G rievin g for the
loss of little P atience, Lydia’s health
falls.
L evine, understanding the
situ ation , g iv e s her a pup, w hich
the lonely child tak es to her heart.
R each in g the age o f fifteen, Lydia
en ters high school, w here she at
once realises th at her homemade
frock and gen eral appearance of
poverty set her apart from her b et-
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er-dreseed com panions.
.C H A PT E R VI.— L evine Is elected
! heriJL 4. »<»to«n-vear-old Indian
boy, Charlie Jackson, te lls L yd ls-tst
num erous w rongs ddne hl« people,
m ainly by M arshall« and Levfha
Lydia defends her friend vlcurou«-
ly. M eeting Levine In L ydia’s house.
Charlie Jackson threaten s and en ­
deavors to attack him ..
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' T he Camp.
Y D IA and Kent did not use the
roads. I t was w ith the old fa ­
miliar sense of make-believe adven­
ture that they started on what they
called a beeline southwest And It
was mid-afternoon before, hungry
nnd leg weary, they reached the
store that backed up against the
Indian school.
They bought sardines, crackers
and cheese and ate them perched
on a dry goods box near the hitch­
ing rack.
“There I I feel happier,” said
'K e n t as he threw away the empty
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sardine cans.
“How are yon, old
lady?”
Lydia swung her feet contentedly.
“ Fine! L et’s start back, W » H be
there by supper time, I ’m sure we
know the way now.”
But alas for the vanity .o f ama­
teur woodcraftsmen I
The late
Jane dusk found them still thread­
ing the endless aisles of pine, their
sense of direction completely ob­
scured by the sinking of the son.
**8cared, L y d F inquired Kent as
they paused for a moment's rest on
a log.
“No, bnt Fm awful hungry."
Lydia drew a trifle closer on the
log to K e h t “Supposing we have
to stay her« all night I" She shiv­
ered a little.
“Well, I ’d boUd a Are," paid Kent
In a matter-of-fact manner that
Lydia suspected was assumed, “and
fix yon UP on a bed of nine needles.
Theo Fd stand guard a ll night, like
a little tin hero. I hope the folks
won’t worry about ns. In the mean­
time, yon and I can have a good
old talk, like the old days. Re­
member?" "
“I remember 1
Kent, are yon
afraid r
*1 should say not I I like the
woods at night, Don’t the ferii and
the needles smett fine? Lyd, what’re
yeM'gofingi’to de a fte r you finish
high scheo( T‘
“Go on to the university. Aren’t
yon?”
“Dad wants me to, but I guess I ’ll
go to work. Why waste fonr years
learning a lot o f staff that’ll never
earn me a cent? W hat do you want
to go to the university for?”
“Kent, I promised mother Td go.
And I want to, anyhow. We're so
poor, that I ’ll never be anything but
a scrub woman i f I don't get edu
cated.”
Kent stirred uncomfortably. " I
want to make money, quick."
“I don’t see what the hurry Is. Is
It Olga?”
‘*Ot coarse It Isn't Olga. She's
all right to flirt with and a peachy
looker, but you don’t suppoee a feh
low want« to marry every girl he
gets crazy about!”
“I didn’t know,” said . Lydia,
meekly. “Nobody was ever crazy
about me.”
•Y ou aren't that kind, thank
heaven. You’re growing up the way
when it was so obliging about be­
ing put out of» the wuy in the day­
CHAPTER VIL—L evine 4s shot by
time.
an unseen assassin . R ecuperating
John D. and H enry have never
The old, fanny-shaped quilt had at the D udley cottage, he learns
been equaled as team workers.
been put up w ith .it, and then the the real ex tea t o f L ydia’s loneliness
her shaken fa ith In God. The
funny shaped quilt bad been taken and
man and girl enter Into a compact
down.
ter sta rt a “search for God” to g eth ­
S E A T T L E , Nov. 4.— T act­
To be sure that had not been er. Levine, recovered, begins his
cam paign for congress.
Most folks go to the opera for
less A m erican tourists who
much of a compliment.
Some of
CHAPTER VIII.—L ydia Is unable
try to “ high h a t" the French
the sole reason of saying they
the grown-up children 7 h e 'tru n d le
to drive the hatred of Levine frort
bed
recognized
had
come
up
In
went.
are responsible fo r the an i­
C harlie’s heart, and despite h erself
the attic, not lingering and admir­ her faith In her old friend Is sh a­
mosity
exhibited In
th a t
ing and treating the attic* objects ken by the young' Indian’s stories.
L avins has lon g realised that de­
ws
country tow ard Americans.
with affection as once they had spite their disparity In age he is
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a
T his (s the opinion of P ro­
done,, but with so much hurry and p assion ately In love w ith the young
Mean things can't be nndone
rush, with even such hurried tones girl.
fessor R. D. M cKenzie of the
m erely by yonr being “ sorry” fo r
(N ow go on w ith th e story)
of voice.
U n iv e rs ity , of
W ashington
having done them.
“Mother.” they had said, In
who has. returhed from a
their grownup way, “we want to
One dn£ they came to a wlck-i-np
find some old rug jfor the motor
world tour.
that we can leave right out In the where there were three children
besides the father and mother. Two
Boys can be kepi on the farm
car and no one w ill steal.
of the children were half blind with
P O R T L A N D . Ore., Nov. 4.—
If some way can be found to keep
“What about this old-thing? I t ’s eye trouble. The whole fam ily was
awfully unwieldy, but maybe It sitting In the sun, about a pot of
A sign, “ Dfeadly Gas Keep
(he girls there too.
w ill do.”
o u t,” led police to Inquire
fish. The grown-ups chatted eager­
J “You’ll find it very warm." their ly with Charlie, and he translated
w hat was going On in a
mother had said. And the big old for Lydia. ■ ■
house here. A fte r much in­
quilt bad been taken downstairs.
I t would be m igh tly Interesting
“They say It’s been a fearful w in­
The -trnndle bed felt sorry for the ter. They only had ten dollars this
vestigation, I t
was learned
to know w hat scientists w ill say
q u ilt I t was filled with moth holes year out of their government allow-
th a t Spanish mothes 'w ere
in 2926 when they dig up 1926
and It was not greeted with any once and they couldn’t get work.
tyeing given a “ gas tre a t­
skulls. ♦.
respect In spite <rf Its age, but The baby froze to deatfi or starved,
m ent” ,. and humans who en­
still that was better’ than Just stay­ or both. W e’ll bring some food
ing np in the attic with oflly the over to these folks, Lydia, because
tered would meet w ith a lik e
worn-out costumes and the carnet there are kids— eh?”
fate. The moths had ravag­
He« H eck says: 'A novice with
bags.
" B u t Charlie, tvhat’s the govern­
ed' the place for several
’For, say what you w ill,” the ment allowance?”
a gun a in 't got much chance w ith
weeks, eating clothing, fu r­
trundle bed thought, “the carpet
“Oh, didn’t you know?— and
the kind o' com petitive he has to
n itu re and
even
potted
bags don’t know human nature and you’re one 'o f the white lords of
meet in Chicago.” '
love and happiness and birthday creation, too! The government set
plants.
mornings and early Christmas aside this land for the Indians In
mornings the way I do.
I was solemn treaty with them, for ever
brought np w ith children.
The and ever. Then It deliberately sold
carpet bags lack Imagination.”
off a big block of it and deposited
Oh, yet, then the" trundle bed the money at Washington.
The
was very lonely.
Even the old Income from this wns to be given
sphinlng-wheel had been taken to the Indian«. There’s over two
downstairs.
Not that the trundle million dollars there. But by the
bed had ever cared for the spin­ time It’s filtered from Washington
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
ning-wheel. Much too Industrious to the Indians, this Is the result.”
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for the trnndle bed. The trnndle He nodded at the half-starved
bed encouraged sleeping apd rest group about the fish pot.
and Idleness. B ut still It was an­
Lydia had had four days of this.
other objact In the attic.
As they made their way back to
Now there was hardly anything the camp for supper «he said to
left. In fact, a few modern trnnka him, In an unsteady voice, “Charlie,
N orm »! Notes— Bennie Gates,
W Î W . E rb , Jack T ru e, and T. had been brought upstairs, but I can’t stand it I Think of that
Elsie
James
McDowell, W. B ryant are down In the Jose­ they were anoblbsb over nothing. It baby that froze to death. And all
K ay M ow and Donald Helm s of phine bounty section on a pros­ was true they were taken down these beautiful woods are full of
again and again and then brought half-starved Indians! What can I
Ashland
entered
the
training pecting trip. -
back again.
They traveled, true do about It, Charlie?”
school laet week.
enoagh.
But they wouldn’t last
"Ton can’t do anything. I t ’s toi,
long.
They weren’t, well made. late. .B u t I wanted yon to see. I
S h e riff ¿gam es and Deputy J. The trnndle b^d knew.
don’t care what girl understands as „"You’re Growing Up the
Miss L ydia McCall who has
And then!
Oh. the trundle bed long as yon do. I think an awful
OIK Ought to."
been spending a Vacation In Oak- R. W ick were In the upper T ra il
rejoiced.
I t seemed almost too lot of you, Lydia.",
Inhil, Berkeley* and St.
Helena, Cteek country on o ffic ia l buslnes
good to be true.
I t was taken
H e took Lydia’s hand and patted a girl ought to. I. know all «boat
They took a little downstair. One side was taken off I t Lydia looked up at him, thrilled it.n
Cal., returned home last evening. last week.
Lydia sat staring Into the dark
hunting trip
on the side and and It sat In the best front hall by his bronze beauty and the note
nets, thinking this ever. She w u
and
was
used
as
a
couch
and
a
In
his
voice.
G. F . B illings and wife retu rn ­ killed tw o fine deer.
resting place and y a s admired I
“I f I were a white man,” said getting an amount o f comfort out
(6k 1»M. Waatera N tw iM M r Unloa.1
ed home from th e ir eastern trip
Charlie, “I ’d make yon love me ano e f the conversation that made her
realise W w .oore a spot there had
which extended
“ way
down
marry me- But I ’m an Indian find been within her.
sooner or later I ’ll go back to my
W H- M ow at and J .C rit Tol-
e a a f'-to M r. Billings* s a tire home
“Kent," fisked Lydia, suddenly/
people. I ’m just making believe I “what's « hussyF
In the state of Maine where he man, w ith (h e ir dogs, had a lively
DAILY BIBUS PASSAGE
can play the whlUuiaanls game for
"H u h l" exdhiated Kent “W hat
but aasuccessful chase a fte r a big
has not visited fo r many years,
“But when ye pray,
ush not
»y, ns4
a while.” He eyed Lydia wistfully. makes you ask t h a t r
repetitions, aa i th e Jffiea-
black bear on top of Buck Point,
“But w e ll be friends, eh, Lydia I —
“Election night there.were lots of
do; for they th ia ft th a t
• <
Always? Even If I go back to the women, flashily dressed, around,
onpmdte Soda Springs, last 8at-'|
wlck-I-np,
you’ll
he
my
friend?”
they
shall
be
heard
tor
thair
A deal was closed Saturday for urday. T he dogs
and father said they were hussies
ran
B rain
inch speaking." Matt. S tT .lF
"(M l ycq, Charlie, always,” re­ And I saw Gustos flirting with one
the eale by C. E. N tnlnger. o f his
around and around In the th ick
Prayer Is c o m m o n ucRh plied Lydia, earnestly, while there of them, and some of the senior
brick building on th e east side of bruah- but the hunters were not
flashed through M r head the half boys, too. Ahd 1 saw some o f the
God. He Is not IntereatfiVfa
F o u rth street, cofher o f B street,
whlmslcnl thought "Queer kinds of best-dressed o f the Indians with
words and vain - repeti.
able to get a shot a t him a t a l l . ,
men want to'be friends with ate— ♦boni” .
tlons: God looketh on a;man’s
to Thos. McKinnls, a recent ar- There a re said to be several hear.
Mr. Levine, Mr. Marshall and Char­
heart and does not listen so
rival In Ashland fror
Eastern
lio n and up on.'Sarnp-
lie. And they all hate each ether I”
much
to
wh;t
he
utter«
with
(Continued Tomorrow)
Oregon.
bis mouth.
.
th” «P1*®««. Charlie wu*
flu th
erfin — Local cannery M id
"»rflú-
lerestnuuinM AJM ntahûarijigJÆ lia ¡Í3 6 .Ü Ü 0 9 M es fo r i * " °
20 Years Ago
children returned to Ashland last
eeor r r j
O ld Trundle Bed
F or y e a r, the trundle bed., Rad
been up I d „the attic. I t had been
very huppy'up there, though It had
known better days. -
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Lately it bad been growing very
lonely.' That was when its old
quilt had been taken away.
..The trundle bed could go back
for years and yeurs. I t could even
associate with the hair trunks and
the carpet bags,* and the funny
high hats and huge skirts thut
were In the chest by the hair
trunks.
These were almost In a group
by themselves for.«w hile, but there
had been a time when the old wood­
en four-poster beds had eoroe up
In the attic, too.
They had gone down again, for
as they had proudly said, they
were once more In style.
B ut the trundle bed and the car­
pet bags and the funny old clothes-
stayed up In the attic all the time.
The old. clothes were used by
the children when rainy days came,
but they had grown so old that
even the children didn't play with
them so much now. They tore so
easily.
T h e ir materials were all
worn out.
The trundle bed had been down­
stairs for* years nnd years. £)fie
generation of children after an­
other had slept in it, and true to
Its name tlje trundle bed had been
trundled under the big bed dur­
ing the daytimes so that it took up
no room.
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The trundle bed didn’t quite un­
derstand why It had.been put away
% Isn't It Odd?
A r the arteries
brain softens.
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By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
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Kiddies’ Evening
Story
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OO^OOGOGOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOG
What Others Say
ASHLAND
♦O O O O O O O O O CO O O O O O O O O O CHXH
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(P o rtla n d Spectator)
T he “ country e d ito r”, is so-
called because he owns and
edits his paper ^tufsida the
“ big c ity ;” the M lto rs o f the
big city are ra re ly . I t
ever
the owners
of the
papers
they edit. I th in k the coun­
try editors have a g reater
, sense of th e ir responsibility
to th e ir readers.and a higher
and more daring s p irit of in ­
dependence th a ir have th e ir
fellow -editors o f the city. To
be able to say w h at you
th in k w lth b nt Instructions as
to w h at you m ust say I t Is,
in my hum ble opinion, the
th in g th a t fllAlngulshes the
freem an fro m his shackled
and m anacled- brother and
fro m the beasts o f the field
th a t perlbh.
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30 Years Ago
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